Indictment of Kurdish journalists jailed for 10 months accepted by court
A high criminal court in southeastern Turkey has accepted an indictment of 21 people, the vast majority of whom are Kurdish journalists who have...
Gender gap in Turkish parliament to remain, parties’ candidate lists reveal
The parliamentary candidate lists of 26 political parties for the May 14 general election have revealed that the gender gap in the Turkish parliament...
Boğaziçi University administration cancels class taught by gov’t critic
Political pressure on Turkish universities is continuing, with yet another class taught by a government critic canceled by Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, the Evrensel daily reported.
Lecturer Sefa Ziya...
State-owned bank continues declining applications for earthquake assistance loan submitted by post-coup purge victims
Turkish state-owned Vakıfbank is continuing to decline applications filed by individuals who were fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
Health needs remain high in Turkey 2 months after the earthquakes: IOM
Some key sectors of the emergency and recovery response in Turkey remain dangerously underfunded, including health, two months after devastating earthquakes struck the country’s...
132 incidents of direct, physical transnational repression perpetrated by Turkey since 2014: Freedom House
A report by Freedom House on transnational repression reveals that Turkish authorities have committed 132 incidents, or 15 percent of the total, of direct,...
Turkey records 844 coronavirus-related deaths in last 5 months
Turkey has recorded 252,945 COVID-19 infections and 844 virus-related deaths in the last five months, the Evrensel daily reported, citing data from the Health...
Turkey often fails to implement ECtHR decisions on freedoms of expression and press: report
An annual report by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers on its supervision of the execution of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s...
Powerful earthquakes take a toll on Turks’ mental health
Some barely sleep. Others fear spending time indoors. And many more have developed a profound fear of the mountains that had been their source...
Meta to activate an operations center ahead of elections in Turkey
Meta, an American multinational technology conglomerate that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that a center for elections operations will be activated ahead...
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